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People have no way to get home. as widespread as tokyo is, without rail, they're paralyzed. if you think about 15 million people unable to move, that is an infrastructure problem, and so what the prime minister, what you just heard him say, he's speaking to a couple of different audiences. to his most populous city, he's telling them to please remain calm, don't panic, don't create a second crisis. to the people of north where we've seen this massive devastation, they need to stay calm so they can be rescued so they can try to work on survivors, so they can assess the damage and try to pull pe...

Our reporter kyung lah is there. kyung, you were talking a little earlier there was about several minutes it felt like this earthquake was shaking. we talked to another gentleman a short time ago that said japan is pretty structurally sound. they know how to do this, and tokyo is pretty much intact. we have a two-pronged disaster, if you will. we've got the tsunami and the earthquake. let's start with the earthquake. what kind of shape is tokyo in right now? >> reporter: well, i can tell you at right now there is an infrastructure problem in tokyo. before i get to that, let me tell you what wa...

Struck. she joins us on the phone now. what is the situation like there, kyung? >> reporter: what tokyo is going through now, karen, several hours after the first quake struck, there is a big problem at least within the city of tokyo with infrastructure. the train lines are down. highways are cut off. and so it's extremely difficult to travel around this city. the problem is tokyo has 13 million people in it. a lot of people, like new york city, have to commute outside the immediate city center. what we have here are a lot of people just walking it out on foot. they have to go to the daycare c...

About? >> i think it's a great idea. we ought to be using our bonding power. you know, dylan, it's interesting. only the federal government doesn't have a capital budget. every state, every county, every city has a capital budget where we go out and bond for our infrastructure needs. but the federal government doesn't. and to develop those bonds and use as an income stream for those bonds, bringing that money back from abroad, it's a great idea. even the little thing that the obama administration did in stimulus, the building america bonds, which paid for about 33% of a state's debt service, t...

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